The Dean family are a fictional family in the long-running Channel 4soap opera, Hollyoaks The family were first introduced in 2002, appearing until 2017.
History
was the head of the household. He had met and fell in love with first wifeFrankie Dean while still in school, and the two were married by age 21. Together they had four children: Jake Dean, Debbie Dean, Steph Dean and Craig Dean. In 2005, following a midlife crisiscaused by the collapse of his workplace, 45-year-old Johnno had an affair with a 19-year-old student named Michelle and had a son with her named Presley. Johnno left Hollyoaks, Frankie and his previous four children to be with his new girlfriend and son. He returned briefly after realising that he missed his old family but was told by son Craig to go back to Michelle. Johnno and Michelle are now married. Following the collapse of her marriage to Johnno, Frankie started a new relationship with Jack Osborne whom she went on to marry till her death in 2017. Jake suffered a mental breakdown after his break-up with wife Becca Dean then went on to marry her sisterNancy Hayton after Becca's death. Jake then found out his son Charlie Dean was in fact the offspring of Becca's schoolboy lover Justin Burton. Debbie lost the love of her life Dan Hunter in a car crash so then moved to London to follow her theatre dreams. Steph's husband Max Cunningham died on their wedding day after being run over by Niall Rafferty; she went on to look after Max's little brotherTom Cunningham until she later died in a fire. Tom now lives with the Osbournes. Frankie's granddaughter, Esther Bloom arrives in 2011 and is involved in a bullying storyline. It is unknown who Esther's grandfather is, as Esther revealed that her late father, Brian Bloom, was Frankie's son, born when Frankie was 16, who she was forced by her parents to put up for adoption. Frankie has never explicitly stated that she was in another relationship at any time before she met Johnno; neither has she ever confirmed whether Brian was Johnno's son. Although originally being seen as straight, Craig had a gay affair with best friendJohn Paul McQueen; the pair moved to Dublin together, though they are now apart and John Paul is raising their son Matthew McQueen as a single parent. John Paul is back in Hollyoaks but he later decides to reunite with Craig and be a family in Singapore after his divorce from Ste Hay.
